A neo-Nazi who amassed a huge weapons stash at his home in Falkirk has been found guilty of a number of crimes, including planning to commit an act of terrorism. Alan Edward, 54, was arrested in September 22 when police surrounded his house and broke down his front door. Officers found weapons including a crossbow, 14 knives, machetes, a tomahawk, a samurai sword, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendable baton and a stun gun. Some of the weapons had Nazi and SS insignia, with police also finding an SS-style skull mask, goggles and a respirator, fighting gloves with hardened knuckles, pellets, ball bearings, and hunting tips for crossbow arrows. He was found guilty on Monday of charges under the terrorism act, as well as racism, anti-Semitism, holocaust denial and breach of the peace. Edward, who had nearly 28,000 social media followers, wrote “the quickest way to someone’s heart is with a high power 7.62mm round”. A document found on his computer referred to Norweigian neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Breivik as “Saint Anders”. Prosecutor Paul Kearney KC said Edward was “a man who with clear neo-Nazi ideals – preparing for an act of terrorism which would include an ideologically-driven incident of serious violence”.
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siehe auch: ‘Neo-Nazi’ with armoury at home plotted terrorist attack on LGBT people. A man found with an ‘armoury’ including a crossbow and 14 knives is facing jail after being found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on gay and transgender people. Alan Edward, 54, amassed a terrifying collection of weaponry at his home in Redding, Stirlingshire. Edward, described in court as having ‘a neo-Nazi outlook’, was arrested in 2022 when police surrounded and broke into his house. They found weapons and equipment including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 knives, some with Nazi and SS insignia, machetes, a tomahawk, a Samurai sword, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendable baton and a stun gun. They also found an air pistol modelled on the ‘James Bond’ Walther PPK, goggles and a respirator, fighting gloves with specially-hardened knuckles, pellets, ball bearings, and hunting tips for crossbow arrows. Prosecutors said this amounted to ‘an armoury’. He was found to have discussed attacking gay people in a series of ‘incredibly sinister’ WhatsApp messages with an associate and promoted the proscribed extreme right wing group National Action online. Edward, who had nearly 28,000 followers on social media, denied the Holocaust, mocked the murder of George Floyd and railed against Jews, black people and gays. The High Court in Stirling heard that Edward possessed and expressed ‘a set of ideals with a neo-Nazi outlook, incorporating notions of white supremacy, the notion of racial purity of whites, racism, anti-semitism, and hatred of homosexuals and transgender people.’